Kelly Rowland has explained how she “stood her ground” after getting caught up in a heated argument at the premiere of the French-Italian film “Marcello Mio.”
The former Destiny's Child singer was spotted getting into an altercation with a female security guard at the Cannes Film Festival.
The guard had his hand on Kelly's back and appeared to be giving him instructions, but Kelly raised his finger in the woman's face and appeared to have a negative reaction to what he was told.
“Women know what happened. I know what happened,” Kelly told The Associated Press at the amfAR gala in Cannes. “I have boundaries and I will continue to uphold those boundaries. That's it.”
The 43-year-old suggested the incident was motivated by racism.
“There were other women on the carpet who looked nothing like me, and they weren't scolded or pushed or told to get off,” she said. “I stood my ground, and she felt like she had to stand her ground.”
Lip reader Jeremy Freeman told Page Six what he thinks the two women were saying to each other.
When someone stepped on her dress, Kelly reportedly said, “Don't worry,” before being chased away by security. It's not clear what the security guard replied, but Kelly is believed to have said, “Don't talk to me like that. Don't talk to me like that. You're not my mother. I told you not to talk to me like that.”